CVE-2018-16268: Linux Tizen

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SoundServer/FocusServer system services in Tizen allow an unprivileged process to perform media-related system actions, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. Such actions include playing an arbitrary sound file or DTMF tones. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

Affected products

• Linux Tizen: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.3 only; …

Published 2020-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.